The Metro-North train that derailed in the Bronx on Sunday, killing four people, had an alert system in place in the locomotive pushing the rail cars, but not in the cab where the train operator was positioned.

December 5, 2013, Thursday

City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn has raised the most money in the race for New York City mayor. But compared with 2001, the last time there was no incumbent running, contributions from wealthy Manhattan districts are way down.

November 24, 2012, Saturday

The landmark decision that outlawed segregation, Brown v. Board of Education, was handed down 58 years ago this week. In its wake, school systems undertook desegregation efforts that peaked in the 1980s. Since then, schools across the country have...

May 13, 2012, Sunday

New York is reliably, if not emphatically, aDemocratic state. Barack Obama won alandslide here in 2008. In 2010, whenDemocrats took a shellacking elsewhere, NewYork elected 21 Democratic members ofCongress, and just eight Republicans. Yet theState...

April 1, 2012, Sunday

New York's much delayed redistricting process came to a partial end on Monday when a panel of federal judges in Brooklyn ordered the state to put into place a new map of Congressional districts drawn up by a court-appointed magistrate. The...

March 20, 2012, Tuesday

Political polls offer one way of ranking how candidates are seen on issues. But there is another way, through campaign donations. Adam Bonica, a political scientist at Stanford, has devised away to rank candidates on issues using their political...

January 14, 2012, Saturday

If You Were to Make a Cityout of all the new or redeveloped buildings in Lower Manhattan since 2001, it would look like the city below: an upscale haven remarkably transformed after the Sept. 11 attack. Subsidized by tax breaks for developers and...

September 11, 2011, Sunday

A century ago, Israel Zangwill popular- ized the term in his play, ''The Melting Pot.'' From a Lower East Side rooftop, the protagonist proclaimed, ''What is the glory of Rome and Jerusalem, where all nations and races come to worship and look back,...